Those who violate regulations, including those who buy the very goods they have been hoarding under fictitious names, will be with confiscation or fines. The regulations are so rigid that it may be said that no hoarders can escape official attention, and it is even regulated that citizens may make secret reports to local authorities leading to the discovery of hoarders. Rewards are promised for them. Officials who are involved in hoarding are to be punished also according to regulations enforced to discourage Corruption.
While thus making public the regulations against hoarding from which people in Shanghai have suffered a great deal, the Chinese press as a whole is taking pains to explain the unfavourable trade situation in Shanghai and urging industrialists and merchants to move their business to the Chungking-controlled interior. The "Chinese American Daily News" yesterday painted a bad picture of Shanghai, editorially predicting that when the Far Eastern: crisis teaches a climax, Japan will dominate Shanghai. Factories and godowns will be occupied and Chinese factory properties may be treated as "enemy Assistant Inspector goods" Likewise the press is also ichigoro Sugano, who has been apurging people to move their capital pointed chief vf the Pangku Police and iâle money to the interior, Station, the "Shanghai Mainichi" ze-
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.